[moved to piefed] movies

Well, I never played the game so I went in knowing nothing. I got it for free.

From that stand point, I'd give it a 7.5/10. It was no worse than Guardians/Galaxy 3. It had some funny moments and some good action. I watched it to the end, which puts it ahead of a lot of other movies that got way less hate.

For an average moviegoer its a below-average action comedy with bad action scenes and weird shit.

For a Borderlands fans its a steaming pile of shit, with the worst casting choices, ignoring the source material, the lore. They just used the name and the idea if the BL world to create some nonsense story with an expensive soundtrack.

They were laser-focused to create a cast made out of big names and recreate the Guardians of the Galaxy formula. Even this didn't work, there is little to no chemistry between the main characters and the whole plot is just stupid and makes no sense.

They didn't even fuck it up in a fun way. Super Mario Bros (the first one) was batshit crazy, but still invoked a shocking variety of details from the games, back when there really was not much to those games. All of the Uwe Boll dreck is at least camp as hell. Resident Evil knows it's stupid, and refuses to break eye contact.

Borderlands arrives years late, pleases nobody, and takes no risks. It is of low quality. It's not even fun to talk about.

When the original came out I was a teenager who wore all black listened to NIN and was into comic books. In other words the perfect demographic for that movie. And I absolutely loved it. My friends and I would watch it all the time. I've continued to watch it and enjoy it throughout the years.

After seeing the first preview for the new one, I had zero interest in seeing. So much so, that I had completely forgotten about it again until reading your comment.

It sounds like I need to add this to my never watch list. Along with every single terminator movie after T2.

That's a good point I haven't seen pointed out elsewhere. I suspect this really solidified the trend of playing it safe.

That doesn’t make sense anymore. Streaming is the post-theater “second life” for movies now.

Good point, would you have a link to the interview?

Did it have the story telling depth of a legendary movie? Gods no....but it was fun. Felt exactly like the old Beetlejuice cartoons when I was a kid. I think people need to lower their expectations and just have a bit of fun sometimes. Not every movie should be a life-altering experience.

I walked away to do something else for 30 minutes in the middle and I don’t think I missed anything. It was very much like a Hallmark movie. Doesn’t help that Dakota Johnson can’t act her way out of a paper bag, and the rest of the cast just phoned it in.

Mostly Coppola's money tho

I watched Megalopolis yesterday while my wife did a puzzle. After the movie was done she asked me what I was watching. I told her, I have no clue as in I don't know what that movie was about.

I’m surprised the evangelical churches didn’t give out free tickets to this one.

I'm just annoyed at how all of a sudden people are Wicked fans. It's been a massive hit broadway show for over 2 decades. It toured in pretty much every American city. I saw it in Des Moines, Iowa for 40 dollars back then. It is not some crazy new franchise people, it was just marketed like crazy because they wanted their own barbie movie.

But Americans think going to see a live show is pretentions and musicals are stupid. Unless advertisers shove pink and green in their faces for hours on end, then all of a sudden Wicked is the best thing everrrrr

And _ jeeeezus_ was it about 90 min too long.

Bear in mind half of that is real-money charges inside "free" games. An abusive business model that should be illegal.

Cain, he was that fountain guy in Diablo who would identify items for you right

Red one was cracking fun.

red one is not aweful if you are 8, or otherwise set it on a bar of Christmas movies.

It kept almost starting, right up till it ended. And it went on forever.